Basic Amount

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or amount:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)